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I ride the 66 classics on my mutants and I have to say the setup is too perfect for any terrain.
I weigh around 90kg and ride very loose and rattling trucks and some 55mm OJs.
Try to get used to the looser trucks, you will benefit a lot from it. Especially on transition.
Everyone keeps saying that about riding looser trucks. I want to get goodish at mini ramp. How’s wheelbite gonna help me?
I ride significantly looser trucks on transition than on street stuff, but I prefer a bit more movement and don't have any wheelbite issues on ramp usually.
That said, I know some times when I know I am already bailing out of a trick and push down hard on one side the wheelbite is actually a good thing and I can get off my board more easily, almost like putting the hand brake on in that regard.
As to personal opinions, if you are balanced and can get down lower, it will definitely help, but being able to carve and turn more easily, even on straight walls was the main thing for me.
For how tight or loose you have your own trucks, I was skating with a couple of older guys the other week and they both had "no movement" kind of trucks, almost a whole cm of kingpin showing on Indy standards, which in itself was nuts, but after they had a go on one of my bigger boards with stock bushings with nut flush and softer wheels, one guy said it was weird and scary at first, but then he started to really like that he could turn and just lean a whole lot more so was going to loosen his off some.
I said just loosen it off half a turn and have a skate, then another half a turn, etc to ease into it. Then if it gets too loose for you you can tighten it back up half a turn and so on. Definitely would not be going from as tight as he had it to just nut flush and hope for the best, but that is just me anyway.
@Prostate Exam rips too, so having good balance and skill really helps with looser trucks. Those clips of that indoor park ramp were definitely worth watching again.